In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

Terraforming Mars might sound far-fetched, but researchers argue in a new study that we should take the idea seriously.

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a ...

What if we could turn Mars into a second Earth? A group of scientists is revisiting this audacious idea with new eyes, armed ...

A new study argues that Mars could act as a testing ground for habitat restoration, with lessons learned helping to fight ...

If we ever want to live on Mars like Elon Musk wants, we're going to have to work out terraforming, and scientists say we're ...

The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...

The key difference is that you start on a barren rock rather than a vibrant alien ecosystem, tasked (or rather sentenced) with terraforming it so that the awful space capitalists can come and ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to ...